So, you're searching for something on the net and you stumble onto this great conversation about it people are having on some forum, and you want to join in and share you thoughts and opinions, and maybe correct a few errors somebody else has posted.

But you can't. Because you're not a member of the forum.

and there hasn't been a new post in the topic in five years.

Don't you hate it when that happens?

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So, you're searching for something on the net and you stumble onto this great conversation about it people are having on some forum, and you want to join in and share you thoughts and opinions, and maybe correct a few errors somebody else has posted.

So, you're searching for something on the net and you stumble onto this great conversation about it people are having on some forum, and you want to join in and share you thoughts and opinions, and maybe correct a few errors somebody else has posted.

But you can't. Because you're not a member of the forum.

and there hasn't been a new post in the topic in five years.

Don't you hate it when that happens?

Or yesterday I was searching for info on a problem I was having with a video game. Google took me to page 77 of some topic on some forum where it was mentioned. One guy asked the exact question I was wondering about, and all the responses were "This has been asked literally 50 times before, read the topic before posting!" Oh great, I'll just spend the next 3 hours reading through the first 76 pages. You guys are great

Or those search engine Nazis. Somebody posts something on a forum and some a-hole comes along, really mad and indignant, informing him that this topic has been discussed before, use the search feature you imbecile! Well for one thing if you don't know exactly how the topic title was worded you can't find it, and for another thing, what's the big problem with a topic being discussed more that once? Do these people want their forum to be 100% dead because all topics have been discussed previously? And is it really THAT much of an annoyance to see the same topic talked about more than once? Oh my God you poor, poor person you, having to endure seeing the same thing more than one time on your precious board

We get it. You are super-special and you will outlive us all by 20-30 years

If they start giving you that, say, "Yeah, I know, there were a lot great people who were vegan, like Hitler for example."

(And yes, that's not hyperbole, Hitler WAS vegan, and more so, he once berated his wife for using a brand of perfume that had been tested on animals. If that doesn't blow your mind, I don't know what will.)

You call it modernizing, I call it another swing of the wrecking ball at the proud edifice that was once Western Civilization. Five thousand years of history and practice count for nothing. Think about this: if marriage is only defined by "love" - a hopelessly indefinable term - then why can't every single argument used to support gay marriage now be used to support polygamy, pedophile marriage, necrophile marriage, and pet marriage? Today five justices of the Supreme Court fundamentally altered our societal DNA in a way no culture has ever done prior to the 21st Century. Marriage now has no meaning, and states essentially have no rights. You can celebrate it as a victory for equality, but I see it as another giant leap towards the complete unraveling of society as a whole. Civilizations crumbe when the family is undermined, and America has launched itself on a downhill slope with great enthusiasm.